# Labici

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Ancient Roman city in Italy

**Labici** or **Labicum** or **Lavicum** [1] ([Latin](/source/Latin_language): *Lăbīcī* or *Lăbīcum*) was an ancient city of [Latium](/source/Latium), in what is now central [Italy](/source/Italy), lying in the territory of the modern [Monte Compatri](/source/Monte_Compatri), about 20 km SE from [Rome](/source/Rome), on the northern slopes of the [Alban Hills](/source/Alban_Hills).[2] Exact location of the original city is however disputed.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

It occurs among the thirty cities of the [Latin League](/source/Latin_League), and it is said to have joined the [Aequi](/source/Aequi) and the [Volsci](/source/Volsci) in 419 BC and to have been stormed by the Romans in 418 BC. After this, it does not appear in history, and in the time of [Cicero](/source/Cicero) and [Strabo](/source/Strabo) was almost entirely deserted, if not destroyed. Traces of its ancient walls have been noticed. Its place was taken by the *respublica Lavicanorum Quintanensium*, the post-station established in the lower ground on the [Via Labicana](/source/Via_Labicana), a little SW of the modern village of [Colonna](/source/Colonna_(RM)), the site of which is attested by various inscriptions and by the course of the road itself.[2][3]

[Julius Caesar](/source/Julius_Caesar) had a villa near here.[4][5]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Latīnae Feriae, Lavīcum"](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DL%3Aentry+group%3D4%3Aentry%3Dlavicum-harpers).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-1) [Chisholm 1911](#CITEREFChisholm1911).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Quilici, L., S. Quilici Gigli. ["Places: 422952 (Labicum)"](https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422952). Pleiades. Retrieved May 24, 2026.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Twelve Emperors by Suetonius. Julius Caesar, Chapter 83: The funeral of Julius Caesar.[44 BC] "Then at the request of his father-in-law, Lucius Piso, the will was unsealed and read in Antonius' house, which Caesar had made on the preceding Ides of September at his place near Lavicum [September 18, 45 B.C.]" Retrieved July 2014 from [http://www.romansonline.com/Src_Frame.asp?DocID=Stn_JLCS_83](http://www.romansonline.com/Src_Frame.asp?DocID=Stn_JLCS_83) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20240304123111/https://romansonline.com/Src_Frame.asp?DocID=Stn_JLCS_83) 2024-03-04 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** "And yet in September he went to his estate near Labicum and wrote his testament." -- Weinstock, Stefan. Divus Julius. London: Oxford/Clarendon Press. 1971. Page 198.

## Sources

- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Labici](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Labici)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 5.

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